Professional Biography:
Janet Kennedy, MS, LMFT is a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist with advanced training in Trauma, Alcohol/Drug Abuse and Addiction, Conflict Resolution, Mediation, Military & Rural Issues. Practicing for over 25 years, she has been licensed for psychotherapy and counseling (MFT34748) in California for over 20 years. The past 15 have found her fine tuning her expertise and mentoring others as an interventionist, conflict resolution specialist, mediator (approved by CA Superior Court), corporate and professional trainer. During all of this time her love of speaking to both large and small groups has grown exponentially. Consulting, speaking, and seminars are available Nationally and Internationally while, due to licensing regulations, her individual psychotherapy services are limited to California.
After attending both Westridge School for Girls and Blair High School in Pasadena, California, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and her Master of Science from California State University in Los Angeles, both with academic honors in psychology. Her initial educational focus was on military and civilian trauma and abuse as well as children, couples, family, and other organizational systems. In addition to furthering her education through hundreds of hours of continuing education, she has received certification as a mediator, interventionist, and master addictions counselor. Living 12 years in a remote area defined by the US Government as "frontier", she received multiple concurrent opportunities to develop expertise that would not have been available in urban milieus.
Her private practice has continuously worked with a wide selection of issues and diagnoses. Much of her career has been spent working with 5 primary cohorts: 1) individuals, couples, and families; 2) individuals, including combat veterans, affected by PTSD resulting from trauma and/or abuse, (including incest, rape, combat PTSD, and military sexual assault 3) individuals and families addressing addiction and dependency issues 4) employers and employees either wishing to improve the workplace environment or responding to workplace trauma, and 5).
She has been a consultant and trainer. She has provided corportate trainings and facilitation to major clients including the National Forest Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the National Park Service. She has provided community based education workshops at locations including Northern Inyo Hospital, Rotary Inernational, Head Start, and Bishop High School District. For several years she was the Mental Health Consultant for all Inyo and Mono County (California) Head Start Pre-Schools.
Inolved in rural workplace interventions,she has conducted employee mediations, critical incident stress de-briefings, team-buildings and other corporate trainings for clients such as the United States Forest Service, United States Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Southern California Edison and Northern Inyo Hospital. She recognized a lack of consumer choice and competition based program improvement on the remote Eastern Sierra and developed Court/Probation approved Domestic Violence Offenders, Relapse Prevention, and Adolescent Programs, once again under the auspecies of Share Too, Inc.
Since 2007, Janet Kennedy has served as a court appointed mediator for Inyo and Mono County in family law cases dealing with child custody. For employee mediations and conflict resolutions, she is utilized by such agencies as the National Forest Service, National Park Service, and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Prior to moving to the rural Eastern Sierra, she was an administrator and clinical director, both for a small start up corporation, Share Too, Inc. and for major employers such as Tenent. She provided clinical supervision for intern drug and alcohol counselors as well as continuing education for seasoned alcohol and drug professionals. An approved provider of continuing education for the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors, she developed several CEU courses and was accepted to present multiple workshops at their annual conventions. While CEO for Share Too, Inc., she designed one of the first dual diagnosis hospital based programs in Southern California and the integrated model continues in use to this day.
Working with trauma for over 10 years, she has recently had the honor of working with active service members, both male and female from all branches of service, who were receiving in-patient treatment for combat and/or sexual PTSD, TBI's, depression, anxiety, adjustment issues and family instability. She is currently completing her certification as a TF-CBT specialist for trauma work with children and adolescents.Although her private practice has always served a wide selection of issues and diagnoses, Ms. Kennedy has spent much of her career working with 5 primary cohorts: 1) individuals, couples, and families; 2) individuals, including combat veterans, affected by PTSD resulting from trauma and/or abuse, (including incest, rape, combat PTSD, and military sexual assault 3) individuals and families addressing addiction and dependency issues and 4) employers and employees either wishing to improve the workplace environment or responding to workplace trauma.5)
She is a corporate consultant and trainer. A partial list of clients for trainings and facilitation include the National Forest Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the National Park Service. She provides community based education workshops. A small sampling of these are Northern Inyo Hospital, Rotary International, Bishop High School District, and Providence Healthcare. For several years she was the Mental Health Consultant for all Inyo and Mono County (California) Head Start Pre-Schools.
Involved in rural workplace interventions,she has conducted employee mediations, critical incident stress de-briefings, team-buildings and other corporate trainings for clients such as the United States Forest Service, United States Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Southern California Edison and Northern Inyo Hospital. She recognized a lack of consumer choice and competition based program improvement on the remote Eastern Sierra and developed Court/Probation approved Domestic Violence Offenders, Relapse Prevention, and Adolescent Programs, once again under the auspecies of Share Too, Inc.
For over 5 years Janet Kennedy served as a court appointed mediator for Inyo and Mono County in family law cases dealing with child custody. For employee mediations she has been utilized heavily by such agencies as the National Forest Service and National Park Service. She is also trained and has conducted mediations for individuals and courts in other civil matters where alternate dispute resolution can be an effective conflict resolution method.
Prior to moving to the rural Eastern Sierra, she was an administrator and clinical director, both for a small start up corporation, Share Too, Inc. and for major employers such as Tenent. She provided clinical supervision for intern drug and alcohol counselors as well as continuing education for seasoned alcohol and drug professionals. An approved provider of continuing education for the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors, she developed several CEU courses and was accepted to present multiple workshops at their annual conventions. While CEO for Share Too, Inc., she designed one of the first dual diagnosis hospital based programs in Southern California and the integrated model continues in use to this day.
Working with trauma for over 10 years, she has recently had the honor of working with active service members, both male and female from all branches of service, who were receiving in-patient treatment for combat and/or sexual PTSD, TBI's, depression, anxiety, adjustment issues and family instability. She is currently completing her certification as a TF-CBT specialist for trauma work with children and adolescents.
After attending both Westridge School for Girls and Blair High School in Pasadena, California, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and her Master of Science from California State University in Los Angeles, both with academic honors in psychology. Her initial educational focus was on military and civilian trauma and abuse as well as children, couples, family, and other organizational systems. In addition to furthering her education through hundreds of hours of continuing education, she has received certification as a mediator, interventionist, and master addictions counselor. Living 12 years in a remote area defined by the US Government as "frontier", she received multiple concurrent opportunities to develop expertise that would not have been available in urban milieus.
Her private practice has continuously worked with a wide selection of issues and diagnoses. Much of her career has been spent working with 5 primary cohorts: 1) individuals, couples, and families; 2) individuals, including combat veterans, affected by PTSD resulting from trauma and/or abuse, (including incest, rape, combat PTSD, and military sexual assault 3) individuals and families addressing addiction and dependency issues 4) employers and employees either wishing to improve the workplace environment or responding to workplace trauma, and 5).
She has been a consultant and trainer. She has provided corportate trainings and facilitation to major clients including the National Forest Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the National Park Service. She has provided community based education workshops at locations including Northern Inyo Hospital, Rotary Inernational, Head Start, and Bishop High School District. For several years she was the Mental Health Consultant for all Inyo and Mono County (California) Head Start Pre-Schools.
Inolved in rural workplace interventions,she has conducted employee mediations, critical incident stress de-briefings, team-buildings and other corporate trainings for clients such as the United States Forest Service, United States Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Southern California Edison and Northern Inyo Hospital. She recognized a lack of consumer choice and competition based program improvement on the remote Eastern Sierra and developed Court/Probation approved Domestic Violence Offenders, Relapse Prevention, and Adolescent Programs, once again under the auspecies of Share Too, Inc.
Since 2007, Janet Kennedy has served as a court appointed mediator for Inyo and Mono County in family law cases dealing with child custody. For employee mediations and conflict resolutions, she is utilized by such agencies as the National Forest Service, National Park Service, and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Prior to moving to the rural Eastern Sierra, she was an administrator and clinical director, both for a small start up corporation, Share Too, Inc. and for major employers such as Tenent. She provided clinical supervision for intern drug and alcohol counselors as well as continuing education for seasoned alcohol and drug professionals. An approved provider of continuing education for the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors, she developed several CEU courses and was accepted to present multiple workshops at their annual conventions. While CEO for Share Too, Inc., she designed one of the first dual diagnosis hospital based programs in Southern California and the integrated model continues in use to this day.
Working with trauma for over 10 years, she has recently had the honor of working with active service members, both male and female from all branches of service, who were receiving in-patient treatment for combat and/or sexual PTSD, TBI's, depression, anxiety, adjustment issues and family instability. She is currently completing her certification as a TF-CBT specialist for trauma work with children and adolescents.Although her private practice has always served a wide selection of issues and diagnoses, Ms. Kennedy has spent much of her career working with 5 primary cohorts: 1) individuals, couples, and families; 2) individuals, including combat veterans, affected by PTSD resulting from trauma and/or abuse, (including incest, rape, combat PTSD, and military sexual assault 3) individuals and families addressing addiction and dependency issues and 4) employers and employees either wishing to improve the workplace environment or responding to workplace trauma.5)
She is a corporate consultant and trainer. A partial list of clients for trainings and facilitation include the National Forest Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the National Park Service. She provides community based education workshops. A small sampling of these are Northern Inyo Hospital, Rotary International, Bishop High School District, and Providence Healthcare. For several years she was the Mental Health Consultant for all Inyo and Mono County (California) Head Start Pre-Schools.
Involved in rural workplace interventions,she has conducted employee mediations, critical incident stress de-briefings, team-buildings and other corporate trainings for clients such as the United States Forest Service, United States Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Southern California Edison and Northern Inyo Hospital. She recognized a lack of consumer choice and competition based program improvement on the remote Eastern Sierra and developed Court/Probation approved Domestic Violence Offenders, Relapse Prevention, and Adolescent Programs, once again under the auspecies of Share Too, Inc.
For over 5 years Janet Kennedy served as a court appointed mediator for Inyo and Mono County in family law cases dealing with child custody. For employee mediations she has been utilized heavily by such agencies as the National Forest Service and National Park Service. She is also trained and has conducted mediations for individuals and courts in other civil matters where alternate dispute resolution can be an effective conflict resolution method.
Prior to moving to the rural Eastern Sierra, she was an administrator and clinical director, both for a small start up corporation, Share Too, Inc. and for major employers such as Tenent. She provided clinical supervision for intern drug and alcohol counselors as well as continuing education for seasoned alcohol and drug professionals. An approved provider of continuing education for the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors, she developed several CEU courses and was accepted to present multiple workshops at their annual conventions. While CEO for Share Too, Inc., she designed one of the first dual diagnosis hospital based programs in Southern California and the integrated model continues in use to this day.
Working with trauma for over 10 years, she has recently had the honor of working with active service members, both male and female from all branches of service, who were receiving in-patient treatment for combat and/or sexual PTSD, TBI's, depression, anxiety, adjustment issues and family instability. She is currently completing her certification as a TF-CBT specialist for trauma work with children and adolescents.